Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo was a Dominican politician,scholar,writer,and lawyer. He was President of the Dominican Republic serving three non-consecutive terms for that office from 1960 to 1962,1966 to 1978,and 1986 to 1996.
The Dominican Republic is a representative democracy,where the President of the Dominican Republic functions as both the head of the government and head of the multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in the bicameral National Congress. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.
Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez is a Dominican politician who served as President of the Dominican Republic from 2000 to 2004.
Danilo Medina Sánchez is a Dominican politician who was President of the Dominican Republic from 2012 to 2020.
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna is a Dominican lawyer,academic,and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. From 2016 until 2020,he was the President of the EU–LAC Foundation.
The Dominican Liberation Party is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1973 by former president Juan Bosch,the party,along with the Dominican Revolutionary Party,and Social Christian Reformist Party,has dominated politics in the country since the establishment of democracy in the early 1960s. The PLD have won several elections since the late 1990s and had held control over much of the government until 2020,when the Modern Revolutionary Party won several governmental seats as well as the Presidency with the election of Luis Abinader as President. The PLD party's logo is a yellow five-pointed star on a purple background.
The Dominican Revolutionary Party is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally a left-of-centre party and social democratic in nature,the party has shifted since the 2000s toward the political centre. The party's distinctive color is white. Traditionally,the party has two presidents:the "Titular President" and the "Acting President";until 2010 the presidents and the Secretary-General were proscribed to run for any elected office.
JoséFrancisco Peña Gómez was a politician from the Dominican Republic. He was the leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD),a three-time candidate for president of the Dominican Republic and former Mayor of Santo Domingo. He is considered,along with Joaquín Balaguer and Juan Bosch,as one of the most prominent Dominican political figures of the 20th century.
Marino Vinicio Castillo Rodríguez,better known as Vincho,is a prominent Dominican lawyer,and controversial figure in Dominican politics. He is the president of the conservative political party National Progressive Force,and served as the main defense attorney of Ramón Báez Figueroa,prosecuted for the largest bank fraud in Dominican history,the Baninter case.
Margarita María Cedeño Lizardo,formerly known as Margarita Cedeño de Fernández,is a Dominican politician who served as Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 2012 to 2020. She was married to former president,Leonel Fernández and served as the First Lady of the Dominican Republic from 2004 to 2012.
Víctor Orlando BisonóHaza nicknamed Ito Bisonó,is a Dominican politician,Businessman and current member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic representing the 2nd circunscription of the National District since the year 2002. Bisonówas a member of the Social Christian Reformist Party,and he has been Second Vice President of the Dominican-Haitian Chamber of Commerce.
Parliamentary elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 16 May 2010 to elect the 32 members of the Senate and 183 members of the Chamber of Deputies. Polls forecasted a victory for the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) of President Leonel Fernández. Before the election,96 of the 178 Chamber of Deputies seats and 22 of the 32 Senate seats were controlled by the PLD.
Presidential elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 16 May 2000. A runoff was to have taken place on 30 June between first-place finisher Hipólito Mejía of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) and runner-up Danilo Medina of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD);former president Joaquín Balaguer of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) finished third. However,Medina pulled out of the runoff after concluding he did not have enough support to overcome Mejía's first-round lead,handing the presidency to Mejía. Voter turnout was 76.1%.
General elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 16 May 1986. Joaquín Balaguer of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) won the presidential election,whilst the PRSC-led alliance won the Congressional elections. Voter turnout was 72%.
Presidential elections were held in the Dominican Republic on 20 May 2012. They were the fifth quadrennial elections for the presidency and vice-presidency since 1998,when a change in the electoral law separated the presidential from the congressional and municipal elections.
The Civic Renovation Party is a political party in the Dominican Republic which was founded in 2006 as the Civic Renovation Movement by Jorge Radhamés Zorrilla Ozuna and a group of social-democratic Dominicans. The party was recognized by the Junta Central Electoral on December 16,2009 and participated in the 2012 presidential elections,supporting Dominican Liberation Party candidate Danilo Medina through the Purple Alliance.
Hatuey de Camps Jiménez was a politician from the Dominican Republic. He served as president of the Lower House of the Congress of the Dominican Republic from 1979 to 1982,and Secretary of State of the Dominican Republic from 1982 to 1986.
Miguel David Collado Morales is a Dominican politician and businessman. He served as Mayor of Santo Domingo,National District from 2016 to 2020.
The 2020 protests in the Dominican Republic,also known as the youth movement,comprise a series of massive congregations,both in the Dominican Republic and internationally,which took place from Sunday,February 16 to Thursday,March 12. of 2020,as a result of the Central Electoral Board suspending municipal elections for the first time in the entire history of national democracy. This decision was due to "errors" presented by electronic voting in the polling stations of 18 municipalities of the country,during the elections,in which around 62% of the votes were concentrated,despite the fact that manual votes,which were also applied in those demarcations,were being carried out without problems.
The Economic and Social Council of the Dominican Republic is an advisory entity permanently ascribed to the Executive Branch of the Government of the Dominican Republic. It is responsible for advising the government on economic,social,and labor matters with a goal to construct and strengthen social peace.
